The ancient way of copper smelting, copper making.

Tomasz Czyszczoń from Montanus - Historical Jewellery shows how to smelt a copper from malachite ore using historical technology.

[joshschneider]

Dudes even got the double bellows right. Absolutely brilliant. Well done guys.

[inbarmeyerson]

This is an awesome reconstruction! I really enjoyed the video. I'm an archaeology student and attempted a similar process lately :)

[michiganprospectors]

This is truly using historic methods. Too many videos make the claim but use modern tech. I will be trying this one day in the near future. I can get copper ore from the mines up North. We also have the advantage of being able to get pure native copper from the mine tailings piles in the Michigan UP.

[Uranium-]

This rly makes me realize how long it must have taken for humans to figure this out with no knowledge of it before hand. You’d likely use up your whole day, with extremely hard to find resources given the tools and labor required, then heat the metal up in various different ways, most ending up cracked into shards. Repeat for generations.

[rubenskiii]

Through YouTube and experimentation i learned myself to collect and refine clay and how to fire them into earthenware through a woodfired small kiln i build in my backyard. The results are still rough and succes not guaranteed but it's exiting to experience and see the whole process. Always looking out for a next project, very informative video! Love this kind of technology, it is seen as primitive by a lot but it's more complicated and hard work for all the senses than what people expect!

[hurricanemeridian]

Honestly very interesting to see someone do this by hand. Really gives insight on how much time people must have spent back then, just to make their tools they would do other work woth

[ahadkhattak-fq]

I learn too much chemistry from this video. Thank you uncle

[kevinstacey]

everything is the heat. from a beautiful steel bloom? to a lead sinker. i friggin love this information.

[paulorchard]

Really interesting, love the expression on the face of the furnace, it’s, oh no, not again! Thanks mate, great content!

[Heddanofarsan]

I have fund such crusts from metal melting in the forests in Sweden (I always thought it was from working with Iron but this looks similar to me, because I don´t know). I can´t say how old but probably not that old, only 150 years old because it was in an area where I believe people cleared the forest very late. I have a lot of metals gathered and I was into clac some 20 years ago. This is intriguing.

[sajjadhussain-opwt]

Ancient people are intelligent and outstanding

[leobose]

I was studying about this today. Great video

[fourgedmushrooms]

Making Bloom copper. Very cool. Great pants also

[Solmyrorg]

Muszę ten materiał polecić wyznawcom Franca Zalewskiego, bo ten Pan "geolog" twierdzi, że miedź można pozyskać tylko przy udziale skomplikowanych procesów, np: elektroliza itp. współczesne technologie. Świetny materiał dzięki!

[shubbz]

Lovely 😍 copper is a brilliant material

[ihtsarl]

Thanks for this video . The copper ore placed under the charcoal will get reduced by the CO (carbon monoxide) released by the charcoal to pure metal.?

[OneStarRating]

0:03 - 0:23 What are the tools being used to crush malachite standing up? Love the video, so interesting to get a glimpse into different times and perspectives.

[ezee]

Imagine what it was like to refine, manufacture copper before iron/steel tools like he is depending on.

[PakleniVuk]

Ancient mysteries finely dissolve . A spoon 🥄 and fire resistant gloves 🧤 with this ancient magic will make me a God !

[TheAnyName]

Question. you took the raw ore, smashed it, smelted it, to get tiny flakes and fragments. 1. Why not smelt the chunks instead? 2. next step is to remelt the flakes to try and get a bloom? im sure there's a reason I dont get, but it seems its a lot of extra steps.